Insulin Levels and Fat Loss - Q&A

This is because, in a lot of ways, insulin is a schizophrenic hormone. Depending on what folks read (e.g. bodybuilding literature), they will be told that insulin is great, it’s the most anabolic hormone in the body, it’s key to getting big. And if you read other stuff (a lot of mainstream dieting literature), you’ll hear that insulin is the devil, it makes you fat and ruins your health. Who’s right? Well, everybody…sort of.

Steady State vs. Tempo Training and Fat Loss - Q&A

I’ve been reading your blogs about steady state vs. interval training and they have been quite eye opening. In your article, “pole vault your way to a hot body” you talked a lot about tempo work in 400m runners.

Steady State vs. Intervals in Real World Training - Q&A

“Most of them tell people to do the intervals after the weights, so what kind of energy to they have left to do any hard intervals? Not much. But, if they said to do 30 minutes of cardio, how slow would they pedal? Pretty damn slow.I’m torn between thinking that they (the trainers) are outright wrong, and thinking that they know you’re right, and just choose to allow the trainee to believe that this is the best way because it drives them to work harder.

How to Estimate Maintenance Caloric Intake - Q&A

First, I have read tons of your articles on the internet (I think I even found something you may have doodled on a napkin and threw away and somehow it made it to a website!) and I have only found that you mentioned multiplying a woman’s bodyweight for 14 and a man’s by 15 to calculate maintenance calories.

Best Pharmaceutical or Herb for Blunting Appetite - Q&A

Well, assuming you’re not talking about prescription types of drugs, I still have to say that the good old ephedrine/caffeine stack is one of the best appetite suppressants. In fact, early studies suggested that a majority (75% as I recall) of its effects were mediated via appetite suppression. I’d note that the appetite effects do wear off with time (although the thermogenic effects do not); adding the amino acid L-tyrosine (1 gram or so) seems to ‘re-activate’ the appetite suppressant effects.

Interval Training and Growth Hormone (GH) - Q&A

I just read your review of EPOC. Probably 16 years ago I read a study done at Laval U. It compared fat loss from steady exercise vs short bouts of intense exercise all done on a stat bike. Like the article, there was little difference in calorie burn between the two groups.

Getting Strong While Getting Lean - Q&A

I need your help. I am 37 year-old female about 128 lbs. with my last bodyfat at 18.7%. I lift 3 days a week, two with a trainer (who refers to me as a hard gainer). He continues my workouts @ 15 reps per set for all body parts with a decent amt of weight. I have not been able to budge my lean body mass/bodyfat for months.